sobreiro
/su.ˈbɾɐj.ɾu/
The verdict
“sobreiro” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #60,640 among 1,185 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,640
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - árvore da família das fagáceas de cujo tronco se retira a cortiça, (Quercus suber)
Corpus desk
Index PT-sobreiro · sobreiro · Portuguese
sobreiro · rank #60,640 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,640
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH soalho
Nearest frequency peer: soalho (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “sobreiro”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- soalho
soalho
39,362 corpus weight
- sobreiro
sobreiro
39,361 corpus weight
- sultana
sultana
39,352 corpus weight
- tablete
tablete
39,342 corpus weight
- talhar
talhar
39,341 corpus weight
- Teodora
Teodora
39,339 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “sobreiro” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sobreiro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /su.ˈbɾɐj.ɾu/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “sobreiro” em português
Rare enough to double-check
sobreiro is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #60,640 among 1,185 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /su.ˈbɾɐj.ɾu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
sobreiro has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is sobreiro, spelled S-O-B-R-E-I-R-O.
Definition
- 1árvore da família das fagáceas de cujo tronco se retira a cortiça, (Quercus suber)
- 2árvore leguminosa da espécie Pithecellobium luzorium
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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